Workflow

Sometimes, you gotta just go with the flow. In business, workflow refers to the start-to-finish steps that something goes through (say, a good being manufactured, or a service completed for a customer).

In order to make the work flow, the sequence of steps matters, and how those steps are done matters. Workflow may sound chill, but it’s actually full of rules—rules designed to make things work smoothly and efficiently (hopefully).

This helps avoid bottlenecks, a step where work can be slow or get stopped up, which slows down the entire system. It also helps businesses make high profits.

See: Scrum. See: Sprint Release. See: Gantt Chart.

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